Cant even bear to think about any of those choices. Honestly if they do something this stupid and out of touch, they really will have a very bad situation on their hands. Two large groups of disenfranchised voters who have very viable candidates (Cruz, Trump) that are being cheated. Is this what our founding fathers designed—somehow i think not and the greed for money and power have perverted it.
I think the staff for both candidates should talk and discuss what happens in this event because they cannot take this lying down.
What worries me is this whole thing of what “candidates” are allowed to do to or give delegates.
>> Is this what our founding fathers designed <<
It’s possible, whether or not you and I like it.
After all, the Founders gave us a republic instead of a democracy. And in a republic, the people’s representatives are supposed to exercise independent judgment, not just blindly and inevitably follow the latest tally of popular votes.
First of all, the Framers feared what they called “faction” - i.e., political parties. So, no - the founding fathers did not design political conventions.That said, today’s WSJ has an interview by Kimberly Strassel of Eric O’Keefe, a Libertarian-leaning Wisconsin resident who had to fight off the abusive prosecution of anyone who fought against the Democrats' attempted coup in Wisconsin.
O’Keefe makes the reasonable point that the parties are actually private entities, and that the states have abused the rights of those private entities by things like open primary requirements. And that those private entities have the right to make their own rules, and that the delegates were entirely within their rights to vote their own consciences in the convention. “The delegates may not know it, but they will not only be saving the Republican Party and the country - they’ll be reviving a tradition of self-governance."